How I lowered my blood pressure significantly with a natural remedy
I would like to share my experience with hypertension/high blood pressure and my management strategies that helped me overcome it. Yes, I went beyond high blood pressure and was in the hypertension zone.
While taking medication to get me out of the danger zone, my search for other remedies helped me find a natural remedy that I incorporated into my daily regime successfully.
I trialed days of taking medication and ginger and compared them to days that I took medication only.
The results when taking ginger were always favourable.
It has now been about 7 months that I initially visited the doctor and found out I had hypertension.
My readings are now consistently excellent and I attribute that to the natural remedy I used.
Note: I am not a medical practitioner and I do not advocate that you do not follow your doctor's advice, regarding blood pressure medication.
My History with Blood Pressure
As a young woman, I had excellent blood pressure readings. So good, that the doctor always commented on it. My father was the same while my mother always had high blood pressure.
More recent history with Blood Pressure readings.
As I’m older now (67), I was starting to struggle with walking, getting up and down from sitting positions, and having swollen feet and ankles. This had started to get worse over the years and I put it down to aging and arthritis.
High blood pressure never occurred to me.
However, in 2020, I had a relatively easy, non-physical job during the pandemic, teaching a student 1:1, with multiple mental health diagnoses.
It became quite stressful when students returned to classes after our covid lockdown as he had substantial issues with making friends and his high-level misbehaviour and aggression were impacting my wellness.
Each day felt like I had been climbing mountains-extreme tiredness, muscle and joint pain, foot and ankle swelling. I also had vertigo.
There were many times I just shut up and didn't tell others how bad I felt. Upon reflection, I should have prioritised my wellness.
At work, they had provided me with a special chair to make it more comfortable and easier for me to get up and down.
Finally, I went to the doctor and told him how each day was such a struggle to get through and my symptoms. I thought anxiety and arthritis was impacting my body.
He took my blood pressure and I was shocked-it had gone past high blood pressure, and was in the hypertension zone ie. almost 200/99.
He prescribed medicine as he said I was risking a heart attack or a stroke. I am not averse to taking medication but I usually do research and see if I can try natural methods.
The doctor said that, if I did not take the medication, he would take my Driver’s Licence away from me. He wanted me to understand the seriousness of hypertension.
Taking blood pressure medication
I started taking the tablets and, slowly, my blood pressure started to come down but it was still erratic. Also, I started to cough and this usually became worse on going to bed each night.
I remembered my mother taking her medication and how she coughed so badly over a few months until her doctor realised that it was this particular medication that made her cough.
She was quite angry as she had been going to the doctor about her persistent cough for many months and her ribs hurt from coughing. She had many sleepless nights too.
So I told my doctor about my coughing and he changed it to Telimarsartan and slowly my cough disappeared.
Previous medication was Perindopril arginine 10 mg.
A Natural Remedy for Blood Pressure problems.
I have always been interested in natural remedies for ailments so I researched natural remedies for blood pressure problems online.
Although the medication I was taking took me out of the danger zone, the readings were erratic and not low enough for my liking.
It would sometimes be in the high 140’s, then jump up to 150’s and 160’s.
I read that ginger was good for blood pressure so I bought a jar of ginger and drank it with my tea in the mornings. I put half a teaspoon of crushed ginger in my tea.
Whenever I drank ginger tea, my blood pressure dropped to 130’s! Same as when I was a young woman.
I would highly recommend taking ginger in some form, if you have blood pressure problems as it consistently works for me.
Note: my blood pressure is excellent now (7 months later), even if I forget to include ginger each day. However, I will still include ginger throughout the week in my tea or in my cooking.
Other things to action with blood pressure problems:
Exercise
One day, I went out shopping and came home exhausted from all the walking.
Although I felt very tired, the walking had helped my blood pressure drop substantially.
Adequate sleep.
Stress.
Lose Weight-especially around the waist.
Eat a healthy diet
Limit your alcohol and coffee.
Limit your smoking.
I hope these reflections will help you, if you have blood pressure problems.
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PS. I continue to have great BP readings! My doctor was dubious at first but is now telling me to continue with the ginger as it is working for me.
I’d love to hear how you cope and your story so I look forward to reading your comments.
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